Proxy perspectives regarding end-of-life care for persons with cancer

Cancer

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1854-1861

  Bakitas, Marie ^a,b,c   Ahles, Tim A ^d   Skalla, Karen ^b   Brokaw, Frances C ^b,e   Byock, Ira ^b,c   Hanscom, Brett ^c   Lyons, Kathleen Doyle ^c   Hegel, Mark T ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

End of life care; Family proxy perspectives; Palliative care; Quality of dying; Terminal care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CUSTODY; DYING; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINAL CARE;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; PROXY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 42149194329     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23381     Document Type: Article

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